GreenBlue's Forest Products Working Group has recently released the Guidelines for Sustainable Paper Products (Guidelines). They complement the SPC's Definition of Sustainable Packaging (Definition) and advance the larger GreenBlue goal of ...
Tags: Paper Products, Packaging, Sustainable Paper
The Pakistan Second-Hand Clothing Merchants Association (PSCMA) has called on the Government to rollback the 16 percent hike in sales tax on import of second-hand garments. In its recently released 2013-14 Budget, Pakistan ...
Tags: Pakistan, Used Garments, Apparel&Accessories
Merchants reported on a markedly restrained demand. Contracts were only closed for the most necessary and immediate need. The spinning industries obviously await the further price development and currently do not worry about limited ...
Tags: Cotton Market, Apparel
The Hyderabad Jewellery, Pearl and Gem Fair (HJF), organized between 7th & 9th June, 2013 by UBM India ended with a satisfactory success note as expected. As we had mentioned two weeks back here that the prices of the gold in June still ...
Rakuten, Japan's largest online retailer, is acquiring a U.S. logistics firm as it continues to build out its infrastructure to compete with foreign rivals like Amazon.com. The company said Thursday it will acquire Webgistix, which ...
Sherwood Ross, better known in the industry as Jerry Ross, passed away Tuesday at the age of 92. Ross was an engineer and former president of Ross Bicycles, one of the top U.S. bike manufacturers from the 1950s to late 1980s. Through the ...
Tags: Transportation, Engineer, Ross Bicycles
WorldPay, a player in payment processing, risk and alternative payments, has announced that Microsoft is using its alternative payments programme to capture growth in China, following an agreement to allow consumers in China to purchase ...
Tags: Worldpay, Alternative Payments
Fashion is among the fastest growing e-commerce category, with online traffic to the sector increasing by seven percent and the number of clothing and accessories sites growing by 126 percent year-on-year, according to a recent report ...
Tags: e-commerce, fashion
The globally respected Entrepreneur Mr. Chandra Kumar Somany ( known to the glass industry fraternity as "C K" ), has been honoured with the 43rd. Phoenix Award, "Glass Person of the Year 2013". Mr. Somany, pioneer of the Indian Glass ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, glass
Tian Huiyu, former head of the Beijing branch of China Construction Bank, was formally appointed by the board meeting held on May 31 to be president of China Merchants Bank (CMB), still pending for the regulatory approval. On the same ...
Gartner today drastically lowered its forecast for the monetary payments that near field communication technology will provide in coming years, noting the struggles of Google Wallet and Isis mobile wallet services. Through 2017, NFC's ...
Tags: NFC, Gartner, Monetary Payments
China Merchants Group (CMG) announced on May 31 that it signed a framework agreement with the government of Sri Lanka to invest in and operate highways and container terminals in the country. The phase 1 of the Colombo South Container ...
More than 18 months ago, Google Wallet was launched on the Sprint cellular network amid hoopla that payment-by-smart-phone technology at cashiers nationwide would replace your plastic debit and credit cards. Since then, AT&T, T-Mobile, and ...
Tags: CR Money Minute, Mobile Wallet
The National Retail Federation and a broad cross-section of retailers asked a federal judge to reject a proposed settlement of an antitrust lawsuit over credit card swipe fees that drive up prices for consumers by $30 billion a year, ...
Bank of East Asia (China) Ltd. (BEA China) has gained go-ahead from the Shenzhen banking regulatory authority to build a sub-branch in the Qianhai Shenzhen-Hongkong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone. The sub-branch, with a ...
Tags: BEA China, Sub-branch